410 ilUSCICAI'ID.K. 



wattle round the eye sky-bluo " {D" Albertix). Total length 6-4 inches, 

 culmcn 0-6, wing 3*15, tail 2-8o, tarsus 0*7. 



Adidt female. General colour orauge-brown, brighter on the 

 hind neck ; wings dusky brown, all the coverts and quills exter- 

 nally orange-brown or rufous ; tail-feathers dull brown, edged with 

 rufous ; crown of head dull slate-colour, as well as the feathers 

 round and below the eye ; in front of the latter a large spot of dull 

 white ; sides of face, sides of neck, throat, and breast orange ; re- 

 mainder of under surface pure white, the flanks washed with reddish 

 brown ; thighs entirely of the latter colour ; under wing-coverts 

 whitish, washed slightly with orange ; quills dull brown below, 

 rufous along the inner webs ; " bill dusky ; feet ashy ; iris black " 

 (UAlljertis). Total length G-3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3*2, tail 

 2"9, tarsus 0'6o. 



Hah. New Uuinea ; Mysol. 



n. J ad. St. New Guinea. 



b. S ad. sk. Dorey, N. G. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. cS ad. sk. Sorong, N. G., Feb. 4, I^eyden Museum [P.]. 



l86o{D>:Ber>isfeui). 

 (I. 2 ad. sk. Sailolo, Salwati, July Levden Museum [P.J. 



11, 18G7 (Hoeclt). 



d. e. J ad.:/. J ad. sk. Mysol. A. li. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Arses aruensis. 



Arses aruensis, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mas. vol. i. no. 5, p. 21. 



Adult male. Crown of head, ear-coverts, and sides of face, fore 

 part of cheeks, chin, and extreme upper edge of throat blue-black ; 

 round the hind neck a broad white collar, joining the sides of the 

 neck, which, with the hinder cheeks and the rest of the under sur- 

 faces of body, are pure white, excepting the tibial plumes, which 

 are black ; mantle, scapulars, and upper back blue-black ; wing- 

 cos-erts also blue-black, the terminal half of the inner greater 

 coverts and the ends of the scapulars white ; primary-coverts and 

 (juills black, edged with blue-black ; lower back and rump white ; 

 upper tail-coverts blue-black, tail-feathers black, washed with blue- 

 black on their margins ; under wing-covorts and axillaries white ; 

 quills blackish below, ashy along the inner edge of the primaries, 

 white on the secondaries. Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0"6, 

 wing 3-1, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. General colour above dusky orange-brown, the 

 tail also dull brown, with dusky-rufous edges to the feathers ; least 

 wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater series dusky 

 brown with orange-brown edges and tips of lighter orange ; pri- 

 mary-coverts and quills brown, with dull orange-rufous margins, 

 broader on the secondaries ; crown of head, feathers below the eye, 

 and ear-coverts glossy black ; a loral spot of orange ; round the 

 hind neck a collar of bright orange-rufous, contrasting strongly 

 ■with the back ; cheeks, throat, and breast blight orange-rufous, 



